And he filed against me on the last day at the encouragement of then Kevin McCarthy, our gentleman who was seeking to be speaker and was looking to put together as much support as he could. And McCarthy and his kind of dark money allies put $300,000 into Duarte's race in the primary. despite the fact that there were other Republicans, because they figured he was their best chance. He was a big republican donor. There was an ability to self finance his race and that was a successful strategy. (10:58–11:06)
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